Example sentences of "them do not " in BNC.

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1 As a young man he had been pursued by many women ; that he secretly despised them did not lessen his attractiveness but in later years his large family and increasing years had hung about him with a weight as great as any deformity : but he would never risk exposing himself as Rose had .
2 Some of them did not flower too well in confined conditions and others , like the Double Yellow , proved intolerant of London 's smoke .
3 Most of them did not differ greatly from most other grammar schools , which also ( of course ) enrolled fee-payers .
4 Most of them did not escape from wartime secrecy and were not properly developed until the war was over .
5 Time and again women failed to find the words in which to frame their questions , knowing only that the language available to them did not fit .
6 Sadly many of them did not show quite the high standard of dress they expect of their pupils .
7 It seemed highly unlikely that they were the same animals , and the verbal description of them did not fit that of the two rehomed dogs .
8 While the nursing staff had been keenly following the implementation of the ENP , some of them did not seem to be familiar with my parameters of practice — I sometimes missed patients that I could have treated because they were not being filtered through to me .
9 Certainly abolitionists used techniques which had a radical pedigree — this was a source of Wilberforce 's concern — but most of them did not tie them to programmes of large-scale reconstruction of the political order and sought to portray the economic change involved in abolition and emancipation as a smooth transition to a more profitable state of affairs .
10 The affectionate bond that built up between them did not go unnoticed either by Prince Charles nor Mannakee 's colleagues .
11 For instance , the predicates clear and ’ ’ were used in the conditions for the operations in the blocks world , but adding them did not extend the descriptive power of the language .
12 The incidence found was probably an underestimate of true community incidence as the protocol did not pick up those people in whom , for whatever reason , the clinicians caring for them did not measure the serum electrolyte values .
13 Nine patients did not give their number of sexual partners and one of them did not tell her age at first intercourse .
14 He frowned and brushed at them , but the stains marking them did not disappear .
15 And I realized too that often the three of them did not have enough to eat .
16 He looked round them all as though none of them afforded him any surprise , though two of them did not belong here , and to his certain knowledge had been elsewhere only a short time ago .
17 For many of the students who took part in them did not have the working-class back- ground traditionally associated with militant anti-Francoism , but came from prosperous , middle-class families which had benefited socially and economically from Francoism .
18 The labels which Darwin had attached to them did not say where the specimens were found ; he simply had not had any reason at the time to think that geography was important .
19 And never mind if some of them did not see a single golf-ball struck .
20 Over the next few days , however , there were a number of such incidents and some of them did not end so happily .
21 They were particularly vulnerable during their first 12 months and about a third of them did not live to reach the age of 10 .
22 It may also be that the early returns from the voyages proved small , and that it was felt that investment in them did not provide an adequate reward for those involved .
23 Most of them did not control for a possible confounding effect of H pylori infection .
24 I wish I 'd brought the environment committee before so I could quote from it but from er recollection it says that that organisation did not have a consistent record of producing a significant number of jobs and that the expenditure on funding them did not provide value for money .
25 They sang every song they knew , which between them did not add up to very many songs .
26 ‘ Maybe one of them did not want to be involved but kept quiet because of fear .
27 He does not believe that Britain lacks for entrepreneurs , but he is concerned that many of them do not do their homework well enough .
28 But most of them do not — which is their right .
29 Bigger waves undoubtedly occur , but those who witness them do not return to tell the tale .
30 It is important to recognize under what pressures newspaper correspondents work : many of them do not have shorthand and use their own personal notation system .
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